Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.

It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.

The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.